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Summary: Review Of the Giver
Review: Review of the Giver In the Giver it has a very different culture. They are almost perfect in it and can be punished very badly. As they grow older they can be given certain privileges. I would not fit in because I would feel very different from the community and might break some rules. If you are reading my review I would recommend that you read the giver.
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Summary: Why I like the The Giver
Review: Why I liked The Giver. The story was fiction and I like fiction stroies. When I first read it was like I was reading about a new culture that was just discovered. In class we compared the book on how there culture was different from ours. The book was very interesting because every night when I read the book it got more interesting by the mintue. Some parts of the story was confusing, sad and good. Unlike Park's Quest which was very confusing The Giver was more exciting and scary. I would recommand reading this book.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: Giver
The Giver was a very interesting book. I said this because the book was odd which would keep you interested in it. Some parts of the book were hard to understand and other parts of it were easy to understand. Most people thought that the book was weird but I thought it was really cool. The book told you about a world that is totally different. They had a lot of rules were we have some rules but not as many or as strict as theirs. I think in all the book was a very good book because it made you think and I like books that make you think a lot. I would suggest who ever is reading this paper I just wrote should read the giver.
By Dan Coleman
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Summary: My Giver Review
Review: I thought The Giver was a very strange book. I thought it was strange because their community had so many rules. For example, they become adults when they are 12, and the men have to apply for a wives and children. I enjoyed reading The Giver. I thought it was interesting seeing a whole different culture. Lois Lowry did a wonderful job making a whole different world and culture. I think people should read The Giver because it is a well written book.
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Summary: I think the giver was...
Review: As I read through the first few pages I felt kind of confused because what I thought the book was going to be about it wasn't really about that at all. Then as I hit the mid pages I liked and understood it. I think that the book was exciting and you were always wondering what was going to happen next. It wasn't such a fighting war type of book, but it also wasn't such a mellow, comfy type of book. I like how the author wrote each chapter. He used very clever and interesting words to describe what each character was feeling emotionally, physically, and mentally. Over all I think I liked and enjoyed the book because I didn't understand everything right when it happened, but by the end it all had woven together.
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Summary: great book!
Review: This is one of the best books i've ever read, Lowry's imagination is incredible. this is a book like no other, it's set in a totally different world, probably the future as Lowry sees it. This is a very unique book, there aren't many like it, or as good. It's a story about a boy who lives in a strange, utopian (rather wanna-be-utopian) society and is faced with many problems. Even though his problems are totally different than ours, you can really realate to him, it makes you think of our world from a different perspective.
I STRONGLY RECOMEND THIS BOOK!!!
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Summary: The Giver Book Review: Why It Is An Exemplary Book
Review: The Giver, by Lois Lowry is an exceptional book to say the least. It grabbes your eye and your attention and takes you along for a whirlwind ride to a time and place unimaginable to even the most creative of minds. Within a moment of opening the book, one is thrashed abrubtly into a fairy tale land in which emotions and freedom of choice are nonexistant. What I particuarly liked about this book was its ability to strech ones mind and imagination far beyond any normal boundaries. Being an American citizen and thus, accustomed to the American belief systems of freedom of choice, speech, religion, ext. it was fascinating to visit a place which was the complete antithesis of all that America stands for. One almost wonders while reading "The Giver" whether the major conceptual ideas relate to world history, with possibly America as "Elsewhere" which Jonas and The Giver frequently talk about, and a communist/fascist/dictatorship being where they are up until that point. I am unaware at this point during which time peroid "The Giver" was written, however, it is an interesting thought to say the least. Regardless, although I thought The Giver's compliance with Jonas's precipitious ideas came rather quickly (their runaway mission to Elsewhere), prehaps too quickly to say the least, I enjoyed the book and would list that as my only complaint if asked to do so. Also, I thought "The Giver" was extremly well written and not too verbose as many novels tend to with their superflous words which only confuse and slow the process of reading as opposed to intriguing and interesting which they are intended to do. Therefore, I truely enjoy the book "The Giver" and would recommend it to anyone looking for an escape, as I was at the time. For "The Giver" does just that, takes you to a faraway land where you can forget all your troubles and bask in the simple pleasures that belong (hopefully) to you, such as freedom of speech, religion, ext., that unfourtunatly, Jonas did not.
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Summary: sorry, but no
Review: This book is silly. The characters are unreallistic, the setting is impossible, and the premise is stupid. First of all, the concept of color. If a communist state can make people genetically colorblind, then why not just make colorblind people not colorblind. And how could they allow a genetic sport to occur. Why would they allow that individuality if they placed such emphasis on communal culture. And it is terribly obvious that this book was not written by someone raised in a communist government. The conditioning even in the USSR, which did not have nearly as controlled an environment as the society in this book, was nearly complete. It was rare to find someone who did not have fanatical devotion to the point of suicide. On top of that, the real problem with communism is an economic one that I won't get into. Communism is in a perpetual spiral toward economic collapse. No communist society could ever survive as long as this one did. Now, this mysterious ability that the "Giver" and the "Receiver" have to pass on and receive memories. I will not attack the ability, because I believe in reading a book on its own ground. But if this ability is not genetic, then why wouldn't everyone have it? and if it is genetic, then why aren't the people with that genetic capability identified at a young age so that the can begin preparation for their training? There's more I could say, but I don't think that this book is worth the effort.
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Summary: Individuality and freedom.
Review: The first time I read this book I was in fourth grade, and most of of its meaning was lost on me. I have reread this book and a lot of connections were made that I simply was not mature enough to see before. At the ripe old age of nine, I simply did not understand the ideas of freedom and the ability to make choices. Now at 18, I see many of the ideas that went through Jonas' mind paralleled my own as I matured. The sense of individuality and freedom, which I now take for granted, were completely removed from the society Jonas was raised in, yet he found the ideas buried within him. It shows that the breaking away of a maturing child is archetypal in nature. And that, i believe, is the fundamental basis of this novel.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: I think that the Giver is the best book. It was very well written and is a very thought provoking novel. I would recomend this book to everyone. It has a reading level at which young children can read and fully comprehend, but it is not to easy to read so it appeals to all ages. I think that it is easy to identify with the characters and it proves to us that a utopia is not always the best place even though poeple always dream that it would be.
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